Okwiri oduor biography samples
Okwiri speaks slowly, carefully, gently.
Okwiri Oduor was born in Nairobi, Kenya....
Kenyan Okwiri Oduor: Not your traditional African writer
Many readers agree that "My fathers head" cannot be summed up as just another African story.
Simbi, the narrator, tries to remember and draw what her father looked like but cannot remember his features. In the end, she summons her father back so she can remember but then he does not leave and she is forced to face all the memories she has of him and her childhood.
Though her story transits through the various themes of religion, death, memory and heritage in Kenya, Okwiri refuses to be defined by just one identity as an African writer.
She said she is many different things and her target audience is any interested reader around the world.
"I am an African writer and so what next? I am interested in fullness of the human experience like creating characters that are dynamic, that are real people, that have weakness and that have strengths," she sa
